GB and I were totally focused on our Language Arts day. He had a spelling test, got new words for next week, learned about writing for the reader, and took a chapter test.
96%, thank you very much!
We also did some work in his Getty & Dubay Handwriting book.
And he did some more Complete-a-Sketch.
It was all [...]
While I was outside watering my flowers today, I saw this gorgeous butterfly.
I’m no expert. I’m not even conversational about butterflies. And really, I wasn’t even sure it was a butterfly. I tend to call every pretty thing that looks like this a butterfly. But it could have been a moth. Some moths are stunningly [...]
The other day I happened to read on another web site that crickets really like fish food. Well, GB and I maintain a cricket habitat to feed the firebelly toads and the skink. We buy about 4 dozen every other week, and we lose at least a third of them. I’ve been using the gel [...]
Today I made a very sad discovery.
All but five of our 108 tadpoles have been killed by something. There were two water beetles swimming around in the habitat, but I don’t know if they are the culprits. All I know is that this morning when I went out to feed the tadpoles they seemed to [...]
This year we’ve had a bumper crop of ticks. And GB is a tick magnet!
Between the two of us, we’ve had 65 ticks. I know this because HE is keeping count. It’s a good thing he’s not grossed out by this…….like his mom. He just gets annoyed by the time it takes to get them [...]
Remember these little guys?
Here, you can see one of the caterpillars in it’s classic “J” formation. They form the chrysalis just a few hours later.
And 10 to 14 days later they emerge as butterflies.
This was just minutes after emerging from it’s chrysalis. And the following video is taken just moments after the butterfly broke through [...]
